Copy editing

Merging articles

Occasionally two users will create similar, separate articles unwittingly. Such similar pages, or pages with content similar to that which is covered elsewhere, are marked for merging to consolidate the duplicate information.

Expanding articles

Wikifying articles

Often pages which are brought from another format (e.g. web page, another wiki) are lacking wiki formatting, contain incorrect formatting, or are lacking intra-wiki links. Familiarize yourself with the wiki syntax and convert these pages to the correct format.

Creating new articles

If you know that something is not covered on Codex, and would like to create an article about it, please be bold and do so! Create a new page in your User: space, then submit a link to your new page to the wp-docs mailing list for review.

Requests for deletion

Some articles are really unnecessary and should be deleted. Pages can only be deleted by an administrator, but run through these pages to be sure you don't object to their deletion, and make sure they weren't marked in error:

Footnotes

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